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Nursing Subject Guide

This guide supports our NUR courses and students. You can find links to excellent resources here.

Allied Health Databases

 

General Academic Databases

Nursing Databases Search Strategies

Tips for Finding Quantitative Articles with a Keyword Search

If you want to limit your search to quantative studies, first try "quantitative" as a keyword, then try using one of the following terms/phrases in your search (example: lactation AND statistics):

  • Experiment
  • Hypothesis
  • Reliability
  • Sample
  • Statistics
  • Validity
  • Variables

Tips for Finding Qualitative Articles with a Keyword Search

If you want to limit your search to qualitative studies, first try "qualitative" as a keyword, then try using one of the following terms/phrases in your search (example: lactation AND focus group):

  • ethnography
  • case study
  • focus group
  • interview
  • oral history
  • participant observation
  • lived experience
  • narrative
  • life experiences
  • observational method